Where does “assignat” come from?
assignat (English) comes from French assignat, from French assigner, from Old French assigner, from Latin assignō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
assignat (English): A banknote used during the French Revolution, on...
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- A banknote used during the French Revolution, on...
Ancestry of “assignat”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | assignat | assignat |
| 2 | French | assigner | to assign |
| 3 | Old French | assigner | — |
| 4 | Latin | assignō | — |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 7 | Latin | în | — |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |